Corn-planter



H. STAGGS.

CORN PLANTER (No Model.)

`Ptenmed July 1'5, 1890.

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UNITED vSTATES HARRISONy STAGGS, oF vALENoIA, KANSAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 432,448, dated July 15, 1890.

' Application filed April l2, 1890.: Serial No. 347,628. (No model.)

ings, and to letters of reference marked there-` on, which form` a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view, and Fig. 2'is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

This invention relates to certain improvements in corn-planters; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, as will fully appear from the following description. and accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, A is a suitable frame mounted in the usual way upon an axle B, bearing upon its projecting portions at the sides of said frame pairs of covering-wheels C C. The wheels of each pair are held or spaced apart by a sleeve or thimble a, slipped upon the axle B, and are themselves provided with beveled rims b, the inclination or slope being upon their inner or opposite sides. The purpose of this is to enable the wheels to act as coverers in throwing or shoving the dirt toward and upon the seed. Besides, the peripheral edges will cut into any crust that may be upon the surface. Furthermore, the dirt is not liable to adhere to the periphery of the wheels, they being inclined and having a tendency to pack the earth at opposite sides of a ridge thus formed over the corn.

D D arefloats or coverers, one of each being arranged between the wheels C, of a pair, which are constructed each of an upper straight horizontal portion c and alower section c", which, however, is extended from its forward end rearward in a slight circle to its extreme rear end. This latter section is horizontal and extends beyond the contact of the wheels C with the ground or surface, preventing the catching of the wheels on`said pori 5o tion. The floats are preferably made of sprin g plate metal and hinged or looped to the legs d of the shoes at their rear edges. In order to hold the plate-metal portions of the floats in their normal position are short angular blocks e, placed or secured between the converging or forward portions of said plates. Depending from and secured to the under side of the lower plate-sections c of the floats D are springs f,

E E are the usual hinged or articulated front sections of the planter, to the underside of which at the-forward ends are connected the forward ends of thek runners g, the rear ends of which are secured to the feet of legs d.

F is the brake, which consists of arms e', each having a cylindric lateral stud adapted to engage the upper horizontal portion c of each float D. These arms are approximately bow or rectangular in shape, and are provided at their rear ends with fixed eyes or sleeves 71 which are adjustably fitted by set or adjusting screws h upon a common cylindrical rod z', bearing in the rear ends of the side pieces of the frame A. The adjustability of the eyes or sleeves h permits the arms e to be readily adjusted to enable them to vary the nected together, and one to the brake-carrying rod fi. The common pivot k is supported in the upper rear ends of the angular bars Z, bolted to the seat-supporting bar j, and which thus-secures said bar in position. The connection between one crank-lever 7e and the brake-carrying rod i is effected by means ot' a pitman m, connected to said lever and to a fixed lever-bar n, connected to said rod. A rod o, connected to the baro', uniting the two crank-levers k of the hinged forward section of the planter, is connected to the rear end of a central bar q of the hinged forward section of the planter.

The seat-supporting bar j is secured at its IOO lower end between two short parallel hars j j and the front orosspieee of the frame A.

The pressure of the float upon the earth is not such as will bake it, as is the ease with the old style of planter-wheehwher@ th e weight of the supportingframe and that of the rider or drivel' are borne by the Wheelf-an obj eotion which exists to all planters heretofore used, so far as my knowledge extends. In my invention the pressure upon the float is ap-V plied and regulated at will.

I-Iaving described this invention, what I elaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The Corn-planter having the spring-metal float hung or pivoted to the rear edge of the `shoe-leg and comprising an upper horizontal Witnesses:

H. W. NEWCOMB, W. F. KAssEBAUM. 

